The California Academy of Sciences

Celebrate SF Beer Week with a froth-filled evening of brews. Sip your way through a pop-up beer hall with dozens of local breweries slinging crowd favorites and limited releases. Ghost Town Brewing makes their NightLife debut alongside NightLife vets Golden State Cider, Black Hammer Brewing, Calicraft, Drake’s Brewing. Uncommon brewers will sling their limited edition Coffee & Waffles Ale, a belgian-style dubbel brewed with cold brew coffee and injected with a little more alcohol just for SF Beer Week. Fort Point brings their seasonal saison farmhouse ale, Resonance, and Galaxy, a dry hopped pale ale. Magnolia Brewing Company, T.W Pitchers, Laughing Monk and New Bohemia Brewing will also pour their ales, IPAs, saisons, shandies and more. Do not miss NightLife’s signature craft beer, Aliciella Bitter, brewed by Magnolia with plant types found on the Academy’s living roof. Learn more about the science behind IPA's and IPAs (Important Plant Areas) from California Native Plant Society. In the planetarium, learn about the discovery of alcohol in space—no, not vodka, but abundant quantities of methanol, the simplest alcohol of them all.